Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age: A Novel

Hrabal, Bohumil,Heim, Michael Henry

ISBN 10: 0151238103 / ISBN 13: 9780151238101

Published by Harcourt, 1995

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age: A Novel
• Publisher: Harcourt
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0151238103
• ISBN 13: 9780151238101
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

A grandiose old shoemaker tells his story to a circle of young women basking in the sun, a tale of amorous conquests and drunken misadventures, in a novella by Czechoslovakia's preeminent storyteller.

About the Author

Bohumil Hrabal (1914-1997) was born in Moravia and started writing poems under the influence of French surrealism. In the early 1950s he began to experiment with a stream-of-consciousness style, and eventually wrote such classics as Closely Watched Trains (made into an Academy Award-winning film directed by Jiri Menzel), The Death of Mr. Baltisberger, and Too Loud a Solitude. He fell to his death from the fifth floor of a Prague hospital, apparently trying to feed the pigeons.